Faculty
Our faculty rank as one of the most productive departments in the country, publishing regularly in top tier journals and presses across all subfields. Our faculty have also won prestigious awards that support some of the most cutting edge research in the field. Recent accomplishments include the publication of Martha Finnemore's Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics (Cornell University Press, 2004) coauthored by Michael Barnett; the 2004 Richard Fenno, Jr. Award presented to Sarah Binder by the Legislative Studies Section of APSA for Stalemate (Brookings, 2003); and the 2004 Lepgold Prize awarded to James Goldgeier for Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy Toward Russia After the Cold War (Brookings, 2003).
Robert Adcock (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007) is Assistant Professor of Political Science. His teaching interests as a political theorist span western thought from the ancient Greeks to contemporary debates, while his research centers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought, specifically the history, philosophy, and methods of the modern social and human sciences, and their relationship to the evolution of liberal political thought. He is an editor of Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880 (Princeton University Press, 2007), and has published in the American Political Science Review, History of Political Thought, European Political Science, and elsewhere.
Steven J. Balla (Ph.D., Duke University, 1995) is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He is also the Associate Director of the Ph.D. Program in Public Policy and a Policy Research Scholar at The George Washington Institute of Public Policy. He teaches graduate courses on bureaucratic politics and the politics of public policy. The central focus of his research is the structure and process of policy making in the federal bureaucracy of the United States. He is specifically interested in the ways in which citizens, organized interests, and members of Congress seek to influence agency decisions, as well as the impact of these efforts on bureaucratic policymaking. His research has appeared the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law.
Sarah A. Binder (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1995) is Professor of Political Science. Her research focuses on Congress, congressional development, and political parties. She has written Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock (Brookings, 2003), Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partnership and the Development of Congress (Cambridge, 1997), and co-authored Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States (Brookings, 1997). Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, and elsewhere.
Alasdair Bowie (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1989) is Associate Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on comparative political economy, developing countries, and Southeast Asia. He is the author of Crossing the Industrial Divide: State, Society, and the Politics of Economic Transformation in Malaysia (Columbia University Press, 1991), and The Politics of Open Economies: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand (Cambridge University Press, 1997), with Danny Unger, and his current research examines the role of business interests in making economic policy in Vietnam and Indonesia.
Michael E. Brown (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1983) is Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs.
Nathan J. Brown (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1987) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He specializes in comparative politics (with a special interest in constitutionalism and democratization) and Middle Eastern politics. He is author of Peasant Politics in Modern Egypt (Yale University Press, 1990), The Rule of Law in the Arab World (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World: Arab Basic Laws and the Prospects for Accountable Government (SUNY Press, 2001), and Palestinian Politics Since the Oslo Accords (University of California Press, 2003), as well as articles on law, democracy, and society in the Arab world.
Ingrid Creppell (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994) is Associate Professor of Political Science. Her teaching and research interests range from ancient to contemporary works in the history of political theory, and interdisciplinary studies of politics and ethics. She is currently working on constructions of the enemy idea as a conceptual, normative and historical phenomenon. She is the author of Toleration and Identity: Foundations in Early Modern Thought (Routledge, 2003) and co-editor of Toleration on Trial (Lexington Books, 2008). Her articles have appeared in Archives Europeenes de Sociologie, Political Theory, and Res Publica, among others.
Christopher J. Deering (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1979) is Professor of Political Science. He is co-author of Committees in Congress (CQ Press, 3rd ed., 1997), editor of Congressional Politics (Dorsey, 1989), and author of articles and chapters on congressional leadership, committees, legislative careers, Congress' role in foreign and national security policymaking, and executive-legislative relations. He has been an APSA Congressional Fellow (1984-85) and a Brookings Institution Research Fellow (1977-78) in Governmental Studies.
Bruce Dickson (PhD., University of Michigan, 1994) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of Graduate Studies in political science. He teaches courses on Chinese domestic politics, democratization, and comparative politics. His research interests include political reform in communist and authoritarian countries, and institutional and cultural influences on political behavior. He is the author of Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and the Prospects for Political Change (Cambridge, 2003), Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties (Oxford University Press, 1997) and articles in China Quarterly, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Democracy, Political Science Quarterly, and several edited volumes.
Henry Farrell (Ph.D., Georgetown University, 2000) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Elliott School of International Affairs. He earned his BA in Politics and Economics, and an MA in Politics at University College Dublin, and received an MA in German and European Studies and a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University. Before coming to George Washington University, Dr. Farrell was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institut in Bonn, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science of the University of Toronto. He has published in journals including International Organization, Comparative Political Studies, Governance, and Politics and Society.
Harvey B. Feigenbaum (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1981) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He teaches courses on comparative politics, political economy, and politics in Western Europe. He is the author of The Politics of Public Enterprise: Oil and the French State, and co-author of Politics and Government in Europe Today, and Shrinking the State: The Political Underpinnings of Privatization. His scholarly articles have appeared in such journals as World Politics, Comparative Politics, Polity, and Governance. He is currently engaged in research on the political economy of the visual mass media. He has served as a consultant to the governments of Canada and France, and to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Martha Finnemore (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1992) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Her research focuses on global governance and international organizations. Her most recent book is Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics , coauthored with Michael Barnett. She has also written National Interests in International Society, The Purpose of Intervention which won the 2003 Woodrow Wilson Prize, and scholarly articles appearing in International Organization, Review of International Studies, and elsewhere.
Lee Ann Fujii (PhD, George Washington University, 2006) is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Professor Fujii specializes in political violence and conflict. Her research focuses on local level violence that occurs during ethnic conflict and war. She is the author of Killing Neighbors: Webs of violence in Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2009). Her work has also appeared in Security Studies, Journal of Peace Research (forthcoming), Nationalities Papers, and Journal of Genocide Research. Her work has been supported by funding from Fulbright, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a Dilthey Faculty Fellowship from the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences at George Washington University. She is currently working on a new project that compares local participation in violence and atrocities across multiple cases.
James M. Goldgeier (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1990) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He specializes in international security politics and foreign policy decision making. His most recent book is America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 (PublicAffairs, 2008), co-authored with Derek Chollet. He is also the co-author of Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (Brookings, 2003), which received the 2004 Georgetown University Lepgold Book Prize for the best book in international relations, and he is the author of Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO (Brookings Institution, 1999) and Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), winner of the 1995 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award in national and international security. Before coming to GW in 1994, he taught for three years at Cornell University. He has held the Henry Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, and has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, the Brookings Institution, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Hoover Institution. He has also been a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow serving at the State Department and on the NSC Staff.
Henry E. Hale (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998) is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington (GW) University in Washington, DC. He specializes in issues of democratization, federalism, ethnic politics, and international integration, usually with a focus on the cases of the former Soviet region. His first book, Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2006), was selected a winner of the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award by the APSA Political Organizations and Parties (POP) section. His second book, The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World, is forthcoming in Cambridge University Press’s Studies in Comparative Politics series . His articles on related themes have appeared in a variety of journals, and his “Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and Collapse” (World Politics 2004) won the Alexander L. George Award given out by the APSA Qualitative Methods section . Prior to joining GW, he taught at Indiana University (2000-2005), the European University at St. Petersburg (1999), and Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1997-98). He has also served as Research Associate at Harvard’s Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project (1998-2000) and editor of the publication Russian Election Watch (1999-2000 and 2003-04). His ongoing research projects include works on party system development, regime change, and ethnofederalism.
Harry Harding (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1973) is University Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. A specialist on the domestic politics and international relations of Asia, with a particular emphasis on China, he is the author of several books, including A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (Brookings Institution, 1992), China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (Brookings Institution, 1987), and Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (Stanford, 1981). His articles have appeared in such journals as China Quarterly, World Politics, and Foreign Policy. He is the Chairman of the Program on International Studies in Asia, a trustee of the Asia Foundation, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and numerous other organizations.
Jai Kwan Jung (Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008) is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. His research and teaching interests include the politics of civil war and post-civil war reconstruction, comparative political institutions, social movements, and Korean politics. He published an article in the European Journal of Political Research and is currently working on a series of papers about the dynamics of political protest and democracy promotion in post-conflict societies.
Steven Kelts (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2002) is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Politics and Values Program. Professor Kelts specializes in theories of liberty. His research spans historical and contemporary philosophies of self-government, especially non-liberal conceptions of liberty (e.g. republican, multicultural or egalitarian). He teaches the history of political thought, focusing on ideas of freedom and equality. He is currently completing a book about liberalism's deep roots in egalitarian social morality. He argues that iconic thinkers such as Locke, Madison and Mill thought of rights as commitments that citizens make (and can remake) in their legislature, respecting each other in a spirit of moral equality.
Gina M.S. Lambright (Ph.D. Michigan State University 2003) is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Her teaching and research interests include African politics, political reform, decentralization, and the politics of development. She is currently at work on decentralization and local politics in Uganda and also working on a project to explain electoral turnout in African countries.
Eric D. Lawrence (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2004), is Assistant Professor of Political Science. He specializes in American political institutions, legislative politics, public policy, and research methodology. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, American Politics Review, Political Science Quarterly, and elsewhere. He has been a Brookings Research Fellow and is currently working on a collaborative NSF funded study of political parties in Congress.
James H. Lebovic (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1981) is Associate Professor of Political Science. He teaches courses on international relations theory. He is the author of Foregone Conclusions: U.S. Weapons Acquisition in the Post-Cold War Transition and Deadly Dilemmas: Deterrence in U.S. Nuclear Strategy and of articles in scholarly journals such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. His current research focuses on defense spending, military procurement, and the arms trade.
Forrest Maltzman (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1993) is Professor of Political Science. The institutions of American national government serve as the focus of his teaching and research, and he is especially interested in the factors that shape decision-making within Congress, the Supreme Court, and the executive branch. His current research centers on the evolving role of congressional committees in the U.S. House and the interaction among justices on the Supreme Court. He has contributed articles to the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Legislative Studies Quarterly and is the author of Competing Principals: Committees, Parties, and the Organization of Congress (University of Michigan Press, 1997) and co-author of The Collegial Game: Building the Law on the U.S. Supreme Court (Cambridge, 2000).
Cynthia McClintock (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976) is Columbian School of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Her teaching and research are in comparative politics in general and Latin America in particular. She is the author of Peasant Cooperatives and Political Change in Peru (Princeton University Press, 1981) and Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador's FMLN and Peru's Shining Path (U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 1998), and co-editor of The Peruvian Experiment Reconsidered, as well as articles in World Politics, Comparative Politics, and other scholarly journals. She is a past President of the Latin American Studies Association, and has served on the American Political Science Association's Executive Council. Her most recent book (with Fabian Vallas), The United States and Peru: Cooperation at a Cost, was published by Routledge in 2002.
Mike Mochizuki (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1982) is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He holds Elliott School's endowed chair in Japan-US Relations. He came to the George Washington University from Brookings Institution, and, before that, RAND, where he served as co-director of the Center for Asian-Pacific Policy. He has taught at the University of Southern California and at Yale University. He is a member of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's Scientific and Policy Advisory Committee. His most recent publications include Japan Reorients: The Quest of Wealth and Security in East Asia (Brookings Institution, 1999) and Toward a True Alliance: Restructuring U.S.-Japan Security in East Asia (Brookings Institution, 1997).
Kimberly J. Morgan (Ph.D. Princeton University, 2001) is Assistant Professor of Political Science. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University in 2001, and was previously a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Scholars in Health Policy Research program at Yale University. A specialist in West European politics, Professor Morgan's research and teaching interests include women and politics, the welfare state in Europe and the U.S., and health care policy. Dr. Morgan's articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics and Society, Social Politics, and the Journal of Policy History. Currently, she is completing a book on public policies for working parents.
Henry R. Nau (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1973) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He specializes in international relations and U.S. foreign policy. His books include, among others, Perspectives on International Relations: Power, Institutions, and Ideas (CQ Press, 2007, 2 nd edition 2009); At Home Abroad: Identity and Power in American Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 2002), Trade and Security (American Enterprise Institute Press, 1995), The Myth of America's Decline (Oxford University Press, 1990), and National Politics and International Technology: Nuclear Reactor Developments in Western Europe (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.) From 1981 to 1983, he served as senior staff member of the National Security Council, responsible for international economic affairs. He also served, between 1975 and 1977, as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs in the Department of State.
David Park (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004) David Park is Assistant Professor of Political Science. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Applied Statistics at Washington University. His research deploys both quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the linkages between mass behavior to institutions and policy outcomes and how this relationship shapes our understanding of democratic theory. His works have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and Political Analysis.
Chad Rector (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2003) is Assistant Professor of Political Science. He teaches courses on international relations theory, international organizations, international political economy, and the politics of climate. His main research project on federations expands the study of regional organizations by bringing in federal unions as extreme examples of political integration. His book Federations: Political Dynamics of Cooperation (Cornell University Press, 2009) addresses the choice groups of states have between, on the one hand, cooperating via traditional alliances and, on the other hand, pursuing deeper political integration. Other research projects examine the political economy of international financial openness, the dynamics of how states negotiate international agreements, and international cooperation to address global warming.
Bernard Reich (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1964) is Professor of Political Science and former Chair of the department. He is a well-known expert on the politics of the Middle East, with a special emphasis on Israel. He is the author of several books, including Quest for Peace: United States-Israel Relations and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, The United States and Israel: Influence in the Special Relationship; Israel: Land of Tradition and Conflict, and Historical Dictionary of Israel. He is also a co-author, editor, or co-editor of several other books, and the author of numerous articles, book chapters and monographs about Middle East politics, international politics, and United States foreign policy.
James N. Rosenau (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1957) is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science. A former President of the International Studies Association, his scholarship and teaching focus on the dynamics of world politics and the overlap between domestic and foreign affairs. He is the author of scores of articles and more than 35 books, including Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity (Princeton, 1990) and Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World (Cambridge, 1997). His latest book, completing a trio on globalization, is called Distant Proximities: Dynamics Beyond Globalization and was published by Princeton in 2003.
Elizabeth N. Saunders (Ph.D., Yale University, 2007) is Assistant Professor of Political Science. Her research and teaching interests focus on international security and foreign policy. Her main research project examines how leaders shape military interventions, including both the decision to intervene and the choice of intervention strategy. Her doctoral dissertation, “Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions,” received Yale University’s John Addison Porter Prize for scholarship in any field across the university. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University; a visiting scholar at the American Political Science Association’s Centennial Center; a Brookings Institution Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies; and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and the International Studies Review.
Holger Schmidt (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2006) is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. His research and teaching interests include international conflict management, the causes and consequences of civil wars, and the links between regime type and terrorist targeting practices. His dissertation examines the relationship between impartiality and the success of peacekeeping efforts after civil wars. He holds an M.A. in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and has received funding for his research from a variety of institutions, including the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and the German Academic Exchange Service ( Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, DAAD).
Susan K. Sell (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1989) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Her teaching and research interests include international politics theory and international political economy. She is author of Power and Ideas: North-South Politics of Intellectual Property and Antitrust (State University of New York Press, 1998), Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, in press, 2003), and Intellectual Property Rights: A Critical History co-authored with Christopher May (Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Press, 2006). She has published articles in International Organization, Global Governance, Review of International Political Economy and a number of law journals, and has contributed chapters to a number of edited volumes. She is currently conducting research on the politics of intellectual property, the private sector, and citizen groups.
David Shambaugh (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1989) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and Director of the China Policy Program in the Elliott School of International Affairs. He is recognized internationally as an authority on contemporary Chinese affairs and the international politics and security of the Asia-Pacific region. He is a widely published author of numerous books, articles, book chapters and newspaper editorials. He has previously authored six and edited sixteen volumes. His newest studies, China’s Communist Party: Atrophy & Adaptation; American and European Relations with China; and The International Relations of Asia were all published in 2008. He is a frequent commentator in international media, and has contributed to leading scholarly journals such as International Security, Foreign Affairs, The China Quarterly, and The China Journal.
John Sides (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2003) is Assistant Professor of Political Science. He studies political behavior in American and comparative politics. His current research focuses on candidate strategy in campaigns, the effects of campaigns on the attitudes on voters, the consequences of higher turnout for election outcomes, attitudes toward immigration in the United States and Europe, and national identity. His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Politics Research, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Communication, Political Studies, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. He helped found and contributes to themonkeycage.org, a political science blog.
Lee Sigelman (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1973) is Columbian School of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Political Science and former chair of the department. He has been recognized with the university's highest awards for scholarship and for university service, and with the American Political Science Association’s highest award for service to the discipline. He is a former editor of both the American Political Science Review and American Politics Quarterly , and is a former director of the political science program at the National Science Foundation. His teaching and research center on public opinion, mass communication, and electoral behavior, but extend in several directions, including American national government, research methods, and comparative political analysis. His books include Attack Politics (University Press of Kansas, 2008), Race and Place (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Black Americans' Views of Racial Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 1991); Nominating the President (University of Tennessee Press, 1991), Political Mythology and Popular Fiction (Greenwood Press, 1988), and he has contributed scores of articles to such journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics.
Michael J. Sodaro (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1978) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. He is a specialist in the international relations of Europe, with teaching interests in international relations and comparative politics. Winner of the Marshal Shulman Prize for his book, Moscow, Germany, and the West, From Khrushchev to Gorbachev, he also has been recognized with the university's highest recognition for teaching, the Trachtenberg Award for Excellence in Teaching, and is the author of Comparative Politics: A Global Introduction.
Robert P. Stoker (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1983) is Associate Professor of Political Science. His teaching and research interests include policy analysis, policy implementation, and the design of public institutions. His book, Reluctant Partners: Implementing Federal Policy, presents a framework for understanding conflict among key members of the policy-making process and inducing cooperation in policy implementation. He is currently completing a new book on U.S. social policy and low wage employment.
Emmanuel J. Teitelbaum (Ph.D., Cornell University, 2006) is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Professor Teitelbaum’s teaching and research interests include comparative politics, South Asian politics, the political economy of development and the political economy of labor. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and his B.A. from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has published articles in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Development Studies and Critical Asian Studies, and his research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. Professor Teitelbaum's doctoral dissertation, "Mobilizing Restraint: Unions and the Politics of Economic Development in South Asia" was awarded the American Political Science Association's Gabriel A. Almond Award for best dissertation in comparative politics. Professor Teitelbaum is currently writing a series of articles and a book manuscript on how trade union political affiliations affect worker protest and, ultimately, the pace of economic development in South Asia.
Paul J. Wahlbeck (Ph.D., Washington University, 1993) is Professor of Political Science. Possessor of a law degree from the University of Illinois, he offers classes in judicial politics and research methods. His research focuses on legal change and argumentation, strategic interaction among justices, and judicial appointments and retirements. He is co-author of Crafting Law on the Supreme Court: The Collegial Game (Cambridge, 2000). His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Political Research Quarterly.
Susan L. Wiley (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1987) is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her primary research interests are American political behavior and domestic public policy. Along with her teaching duties in Political Science, she serves as department undergraduate coordinator, directs the undergraduate internship program, and teaches quantitative methods for political managers in the Graduate School of Political Management.
Sharon L. Wolchik (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978) is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. She is author of Czechoslovakia in Transition: Politics, Economics, and Society, and co-editor of Trying Democracy: Woman and Post-authoritarian Politics in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe; The Social Legacy of Communism; Domestic and Foreign Policy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s; and Women, State and Party in Eastern Europe. She is currently doing research on the role of women in the transition to post-communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as on ethnic issues in post-communist societies, the development of party systems in the Czech Lands and in Slovakia, and other aspects of mass-elite relations in Central and Eastern Europe.
Harold Wolman (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1968) is Professor of Political Science and Director of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy. His areas of research and teaching interest are public policy, the politics of the policy process, and urban politics and policy. His research has also included cross-national comparisons in some of these areas. His work has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Midwest Political Science Review (now American Journal of Political Science), Urban Affairs Review, Urban Studies, and Public Administration Review. He has published books comparing urban politics and policy in the U.S. and U.K. and comparing housing policy in the U.S. and UK.
Affiliated Faculty
Steven Livingston (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1990) is Associate Professor of Political Communication and International Affairs in the School of Media and Public Affairs, and Research Associate Professor of Political Science. His teaching and research interests center on the uses and influences of media in foreign and military policy processes. Other teaching interests include campaigns and elections and American political institutions. Among other publications, he is the author of The Terrorism Spectacle (1994) and Humanitarian Crises: Meeting the Challenges (1995).
Jarol B. Manheim (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1971) is Professor of Political Communication and Political Science. His research and teaching interests center on strategic political communication, as reflected in his most recent books, The Death of a Thousand Cuts (Erlbaum, 2001) All of the People All of The Time: Strategic Communication in American Politics (M.E. Sharpe, 1991), The Evolution of Influence: Strategic Public Diplomacy and American Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 1994). His research has appeared in such leading journals as the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Communication, Journal of Communication, and British Journal of Political Science.
Jerrold Post (M.D., Yale University, 1960) is Professor of Psychiatry, Political Psychology and International Affairs, and Research Professor of Political Science. The director of GWU's Political Psychology Program, he founded and led the U.S. government's Political Psychology Center. Hisresearch is concerned with leadership, crisis decision-making, and the psychology of terrorism.
Clarence Stone (Ph.D., Duke University, 1963) is Research Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. His teaching interests center on urban politics and comparative local politics. His research interests include the theory and practice of local democracy, urban education, and the local agenda-setting process. His most recent book is Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools, (2001) co-authored with Jeffrey Henig, Bryan Jones, and Carol Pierannunzi. Other books include Changing Urban Education (1998), Regime Politics (1989), and Economic Growth and Neighborhood Discontent (1976). Stone is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland.
William Winstead (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2001) is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Honors. His areas of specialization include political theory, postmodern/poststructuralist political thought, Nietzsche, and politics and aesthetics. Professor Winstead’s article “Nietzsche’s Practice of Warfare: ‘David Strauss the Confessor and the Writer’” appeared in New Nietzsche Studies in 2003.
Garry Young (Ph.D., Rice University, 1994) is Associate Director of the George Washington Institute of Public Policy and Research Associate Professor of Political Science. His research covers a range of areas with emphasis on legislative institutions and public policy. His work appears or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. His current project addresses constituency-representative relations in five nations and is funded by the National Science Foundation.
